Aki's guava cake is a very light, pink cake, with guava jelly in the middle and a light whipped cream frosting. Pretty refreshing and unusual. Burnt almond from Dick's is truly a San Jo legend. Also a light cake, white or chocolate, with whipped cream frosting covered in "burnt" almonds. Really good. Another absolutely fabulous thing at Dick's is the almond tea cake, a round coffe cake type thing that is just indescribably good. Greenelee's cinammon bread is also quite famous. It's a sliced loaf of cinammon bread that stands out b/c it's always very fresh, and has lots of icing baked in. Dick's is my favorite, the ladies in there are classic too. Like a time machine.

Did you know that Wilson's closed a while ago, causing much consternation locally. I must be the only person in the South Bay that didn't like Wilson's, and doesn't like Aki's guava cake, or anything at Greenlee's. They are indeed "old-time" and their products taste to me like mixes, or margarine- or shortening-based goods. I'm NOT saying they are (please don't flame me) I'm just saying that they taste that way to me.

For butter-based products, I prefer Icing on the Cake for American-style cakes, and Satura Cakes, Fleur de Cocoa, Shokolaat, and Sugar Butter Flour for European-style tortes. I go to the Asian bakeries near Marina and 99 Ranch for lighter Asian-style goods. While you're down this way, you shouldn't miss the raised donuts at Stan's but you have to get there very early. Have fun!

Yeah, that was a 2006 post .,.. and I still haven't made it to any of them.

Greenlee's Bakery has expanded its little empire recently and is selling at farmers markets in this area and a few markets. I had a sample of the cinnamon bread which was fine, but not something I purchased. As you said it is old school baking.